Answer: Because selling body parts will become a multi-billion dollar industry.
The purpose of this measure was to create a club to beat Jim Talent with. Talent might have ignored a measure that would simply endorse embryonic stem cell research or provide modest funding. But no responsible politician could sit idly by while a right to clone human beings was enshrined in the Missouri Constitution. Thus the trap was set.
The trap was sprung when Talent came out against the measure. The TV spot by Michael J. Fox was intended to drive Talent down in the polls and get Claire McCaskill elected. Nobody involved in promoting this measure gives a damn about embryonic stem cell research, imagined cures, or Michael J. Fox. This is just power politics, pure and simple.
The Democrats have been running variations on this play for the last three years. It is about time somebody called them on it.
Would the Danforth family derive any financial benefit from this?